OCRFeeder
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| Developer | Joaquim Rocha (Igalia) |
| Initial release | March 2009 |
| Stable release | 0.8.5
/ March 15, 2022[1] |
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| Written in | Python, PyGTK |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix-like |
| Available in | Interface: Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Italian, Norwegian (bokmål), Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Swedish, Chinese[2] Recognition: depends on OCR engine used |
| Type | Optical character recognition |
| License | GPL (free software) |
| Website | wiki |
OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract. It converts paper documents to digital document files and can serve to make them accessible to visually impaired users.
OCRFeeder is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later. It is available for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
OCRFeeder was started as a master's thesis in computer science by Joaquim Rocha,[3] who was later hired by Igalia, S.L. and continued development there.[4][5]
The first version was published in March 2009.[6] The OCRFeeder project was initially published and hosted on Google Code, temporarily used Gitorious[7] and now uses the GNOME infrastructure.[8] Since 5 April 2010 a software package is included in the official Debian repositories.[9]
Version 0.7 from July 30, 2010, brought image pre-processing features, 0.7.1 (November 8, 2010) enabled for scanner access from within OCRFeeder.
